Now officially open, the facility was significantly upgraded thanks to $845,000 from the program, upgrades that our Attorney-General and Minister for Justice Yvette D'Ath inspected last month.

Rumour has it she left a piece of her heart with the kittens and puppies she met while she was there.

Also thanks to the support of the Palaszczuk Government, the Mount Isa City Council has received almost $10 million from the Works for Queensland Program since 2016, estimated to support almost 350 jobs.

Projects include:

Civic Centre upgrades

Skate park upgrades

Moondarra Drive cycling/walking track

Xstrata Entertainment Pavilion upgrades

CBD revitalisation work

Upgrades to the cemetery reserve

Pool refurbishment

Medians, parks and open spaces upgrades

New tip sale shop

Significant water infrastructure works

None of these projects would have happened without the Works for Queensland program and it's fantastic to know that we can help out with facilities such as pools, skate parks and water infrastructure.

This is the type of forward and innovative thinking that turns our towns and cities into the place we call home.

Stirling Hinchliffe

Minister for Local Government

Minister for Racing

Minister for Multicultural Affairs

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I feel that there must be a Council election in the air as we begin to hear from the present Mayor and her Council, about the need for a major Motor Sports Complex in our city.

This proposal will have its supporters as well as its detractors and some of those detractors are sitting around the Council Chamber today as City Councillors but on the eve of an election, they now believe it's a great idea.

Brett Peterson, the former Deputy Mayor of our city, spent a great deal of time, energy and personal money advocating and promoting such a project.

As the Mayor and her Council rushed to float this idea again just weeks before the 2020 Local Government election (March 28), one would have thought that the least they could have done, was to acknowledge the work and time which Brett Peterson put into promoting this concept of a Motor Sports Complex for Mount Isa.

But no, the Mayor and her Council are attempting to claim the glory for themselves.

The present Mayor and Council have failed to acknowledge the work which Brett Peterson did.

However I'm sure the vast majority of the Mount Isa public will recognise that the idea came from Brett.

And to some extent it has been high-jacked by the current Council as they search for ideas to get themselves re-elected

But somehow I think the public will see through this gimmick.

James Bambrick,

Mount Isa

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